Track & Field

Kansas women snare 1st title in track

Kansas University’s women’s track and field team celebrates its Big 12 Indoor title on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, in Ames, Iowa.

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Kansas University’s Paris Daniels poses on the medals stand after winning gold in the 200, helping the KU women to their first Big 12 Indoor team championship on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, in Ames, Iowa.

Jeff Jacobsen/Kansas Athletics

Kansas University’s women’s track and field team celebrates its Big 12 Indoor title on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, in Ames, Iowa.

Ames, Iowa  Kansas University claimed three more individual titles, and the KU women’s track-and-field team won its first Big 12 title on Sunday at the Big 12 Indoor.

KU’s Andrea Geubelle won the triple jump, Diamond Dixon won the 400 and Paris Daniels claimed the school’s first league 200 Indoor title.

“Everyone did a great job today,” 13th-year KU coach Stanley Redwine said. “We knew it would take a total team effort, and that’s what happened for us. This is just a result of a lot of effort paying off. The coaches have done a great job helping the kids. The athletes have stepped up. We’ve been working hard, and now all that work has finally paid off.”

KU’s women finished with 150.5 points for KU’s first league track title — men’s or women’s — since the men won the 1983 Big Eight Indoor.

Kansas’ men finished sixth Sunday.

Geubelle defended her triple-jump title with a mark of 13.49 meters (44 feet, 31⁄4 inches) on her first attempt. Teammate Francine Simpson placed third at 12.41 meters (40 feet, 8 3⁄4 inches).

Dixon repeated as 400-meter champ in a season-best time of 52.52 seconds.

Daniels set the facility record and set a personal best with a time of 23.15 seconds in the semifinals, then won the title in 23.29.

Colleen O’Brien, Ashley Shearer and pentathlon champion Lindsay Vollmer scored in the high jump. O’Brien was third at 1.76 meters (5-91⁄4), Shearer tied for fifth at 1.71 meters (5.7 1⁄4 feet), and Vollmer was sixth at the same height.

Texas was second in the women’s team race with 148 points, and Iowa State was third with 142.

Texas won the men’s title with 135 points and was followed by Oklahoma (108.5), Kansas State (96), Baylor (79), Texas Tech (76) and KU (74.5).